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Oink was not a business. Oink was an invitation-only BitTorrent community. Reznor even has a relevant quote in the Wikipedia article you linked:

"they're not stealing it because they're going to make money off of it; they're stealing it because they love the band"

Meanwhile, YouTube is a business, it displays ads for stolen content and everyone has easy access to it.

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Thanks for posting this, it's easy to forget the distinction between the two. I was just thinking that it's awful inconsiderate to have a stance against piracy given that he himself literally asked people to pirate his music, but there is a difference between people sharing information vs. a platform monetizing it.

You have a good point.

Perhaps one could say they are "trying" to pay content providers, but are just not doing as good a job as iTunes.

Apple has far better control over iTunes, than Google has over Youtube. Youtube is just a different animal.

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